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News and press releases from the OSCE's global activities.
OSCE's 2003 Mediterranean Seminar opens with calls for closer co-operation on security issues
Publishing date: 20 October 2003
Content type: Press release
Where we are: Mediterranean Partners for Co-operation, Partners for Co-operation
AQABA, 20 October 2003- A two-day international seminar on comprehensive security issues and the Mediterranean region, held by the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE), began today in Aqaba, Jordan...
OSCE Human Rights Head deplores wave of arrests in Azerbaijan
Publishing date: 20 October 2003
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights, OSCE Project Co-ordinator in Baku (closed)
What we do: Democratization, Human rights, Elections
WARSAW, 20 October 2003- Ambassador Christian Strohal, Director of the OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights (ODIHR), has expressed deep concern over a wave of arrests of opposition party officials and supporters in the wake of...
OSCE Mission organizes visit to support transparent and open leadership in Kosovo
Publishing date: 20 October 2003
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Mission to Bosnia and Herzegovina, OSCE Mission in Kosovo
What we do: Democratization
PRISTINA, 20 October 2003- The OSCE Mission in Kosovo's Democratisation Department has arranged for a group of municipal information officers to visit their counterparts in two cities in neighbouring Bosnia and Herzegovina over the next two days...
OSCE's media representative alarmed over beating of journalists in Azerbaijan
Publishing date: 17 October 2003
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media, OSCE Project Co-ordinator in Baku (closed)
What we do: Human rights, Media freedom and development, Safety of journalists
VIENNA, 17 October 2003- The OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media, Freimut Duve, expressed alarm over the beating of journalists by police during post-election protests in Baku yesterday. "Once again I feel compelled to express my alarm...
OSCE Skopje Mission sponsors public prosecutors' seminar to discuss reform bill
Publishing date: 17 October 2003
SKOPJE, 17 October 2003- The OSCE Spillover Monitor Mission to Skopje is supporting the professional development and reform efforts of the Public Prosecutors Association (PPA) by sponsoring its two-day seminar on the 'Status of Public Prosecutors'...
OSCE CiO on Azeri presidential elections and his visit to the Southern Caucasus
Publishing date: 17 October 2003
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Chairmanship, OSCE Project Co-ordinator in Baku (closed)
What we do: Democratization, Elections
THE HAGUE, 17 October 2003- The Chairman-in-Office of the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe, Netherlands Foreign Minister Jaap de Hoop Scheffer, has expressed concern about the post-election atmosphere in Azerbaijan, in which...
OSCE minorities commissioner welcomes new statute in southern Serbian municipality
Publishing date: 17 October 2003
Content type: Press release
What we do: Arms control, Countering terrorism, National minority issues
THE HAGUE, 17 October 2003- The OSCE High Commissioner on National Minorities, Rolf Ekeus, today praised the adoption of a new Statute of the Municipal Assembly of Medvedja in southern Serbia. The new statute will, among others things, introduce...